Meat and potatoes for dinner? Be careful!

Leanne from A Life Filled With Colour ran into this issue with a bag of potatoes. Opposite hues on the color wheel basically cancel each other out, creating a neutral color. Wrapped, unripe, green potatoes in pink plastic bags essentially look brown through the plastic...until you get home and realize you've been tricked.

Wild salmon derive their color from the krill they eat in the ocean. With their artificial diet, farmed salmon are normally a dull gray color. Other fish are naturally gray, but for whatever reason, consumers expect their salmon to be pink, pink, pink. The industry says the research suggests that people may be willing to pay a higher price for a salmon of the 'right' hue.(source)

Get this: the producers of the dye even have a color fan deck for fish manufacturers to select from, like a paint fan deck. Pink dye is added to the salmon's processed food pellets for the desired effect. It's called a SalmoFan. I'm not even kidding!